Welcome to Technical Drafting.

• The aim of this class is two fold. First, to get you to the point where you can take a 3D object and draft it (and visa verse -- to read a blueprint and visualize it in 3D). The second goal is to introduce you to many of the industrial standards in drafting.
• The only supplies you should need are a single folder to hold your drawings. Pencils, erasures, paper, and other tools will be supplied. All of these will stay in the room for the semester.
• Grading will be based 90% on your drawings and 10% on your classroom responsibilities.

Aug 31

Introductions.
Assignment: hand sketching from handouts
1. Sketching--Execution
2. Sketching--Pictorial Views

Sept 4

Set up drafting machines, pencils, etc.
Assignment: 6. Lettering Exercise: Shape Characteristics

Sept 6

Assignment: how to make a template from the textbook's guide.
start on Prob 3.1

Sept 10

Assignment: Finish Prob. 3.1 Fig 3.77 (we'll call it Line #1)
Lesson to learn: how to use the drafting machine

Sept 12

Assignment: Finish Prob. 3.2 Fig 3.78 (we'll call it Line #2)
Lesson to learn: how to use the drafting machine, use/convert to metric, angles

Sept 14

Assignment: Start and (finish) Prob 3.11 Fig. 3.87 Latch Plate

Sept 18

Assignment: Finish 4.1, 2, 3, 4
Lesson to learn: using only a compass and straight edge.

Sept 20

Assignment: Start and finish 4.12, 13, 15, & 17
Begin Prob. 4.58, which is Fig. 4.75 Shift Lever
Lesson to learn: connecting tangent curves.

Sept 24

Assignment: Finish Prob. 4.58, which is Fig. 4.75 Shift Lever
Handout pp. 143-148
Homework: Fig. 5.52 #'s 7, 15, 18, & 22 (follow the directions: 2 per page)

Sept 26

Collected homework
Gave out handout Orthographic Projection--Solids
Homework from new handout:
19. Identification and Interpretation--Solids
20. Transposing from Pictorial to Orthographic

Sept 28

Collected homework and discussed hidden lines, center lines, and center marks.
Download all 3 of these tutorials, but only do the first & second one.
Assignment: Do any 10 on Fig. 5.54, and all of 21. Completion Problems, Pictorial Sketches

Oct 2

Handed out quiz on Tangent Curves which is to be done by the end of next class.
Practiced simple drawings on SketchUp to help identify hidden lines in the 3 standard views.
Assignment: Do another 5 on Fig. 5.54, for a total of 15 of 24.

Oct 4

Today we took the Tangent Curves Drawing Quiz

Oct 10

Homework: Fig. 5.52 #'s 17, 20, 21, & 24 (follow the directions: 2 per page)

Oct 12

Sorry I'm out sick today, and I don't have my textbooks with me. What I wanted to progress into was dimensioning your drawings. If memory serves, I handed out a classroom text at the beginning of the year, if I didn't, there are two different books on the back left bookshelf--one is skinny & blue and the other black & red I think. Take 10 minutes or so to look through those to find the chapter discussing dimensions and learn about the basics of dimensioning. Topics of importance are where to put the dimensions, spacing off the object, type of pencil, and arrow heads.
Assignment: Do problem #6 on the first page of this handout. All of the dimensions are there, in their proper places, so make your drawing look just the same, while adding the 3rd view.

Oct16

Today we did the assignment above, since it didn't get done in my absence.

Oct 18

You finished off Fig. 6.52 Drawing #6.

Oct 22

I returned you last drawings and discussed the mark-ups.
Assignment: We started Fig 6.53 Drawing #4.

Oct 24

We spent most of the day finishing off Drawing #4. Also went to the shop to discuss how to make sharpening a TIG lead safer using the grinding wheel.

Oct 26

Between now and the end of the quarter (a week away) you are tasked with drawing any 2 drawings between from this handout. Consider which view should be F, R, & T and placement of dimension.